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I propose a session discussing open-source educational materials, particularly open-source textbooks.

What would an open-source textbook look like? What is the difference between open source and open access? What are the advantages of an open-source textbook? What are the potential drawbacks of using an open-source textbook? of creating an open-source textbook? What other types of educational resources could benefit from an open-source model?

Over the past year, I have been building an open-source, online, multimedia textbook on Github for the four-semester Musicianship course sequence that I teach. I would be happy to demo this site briefly during the session, showing how I manage it, and how it can be forked, modified, and redeployed.

For more information about my project, please see this blog post.

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I’m proposing a Talk  about how digital publishing, blogging, creating ebooks, and research guides can be incorporated into undergraduate course work as assignments. Specifically, how publishing projects work pedagogically and practically. I’ll be discussing how this type of activity is promotes engaged learning. I’ve recently work with several groups/classes on ebook and digital publishing assignments. Some have worked great and some not so great, and would like to hear if anyone has suggestions or personal experiences.There can also be a little bit about how libraries can work with faculty on projects like these to promote literacy.

Here’s a research guide I had student create in a course last semester: libguides.gcsu.edu/sevenrevolutions This guide was then the springboard for an e-book.

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I propose a “talk” session in which we will discuss relations between comics and digital humanities and ways of using comics to engage in digital humanities research and teaching. I am currently working on a book manuscript which argues that in order to understand how the material parameters of literature are being affected by transitions to digital technology, we need to look at comics and graphic novels. I feel that this research would benefit from actually being presented as a comic. I would therefore like to discuss why we might want to use digital humanities tools to produce comics and/or help our students do so, and